On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 13:22, Jeff Vian wrote: > Likely one of the 2 items acpi=on or apm=power_off. > I had similar problems and the acpi option worked for me, but others > have touted the apm option as the cause for their success. Both of them work... Some systems support APM, some ACPI and some both. For systems that use only APM them apm=power_off is correct. For systems that only support ACPI then you need to add acpi=on. If you system supports both then which you use depends on how the system is configured.